⁴ If Edom says, “We are shattered but we will rebuild the ruins,” the Lord of hosts says, “They may build, but I will tear down, and they will be called ‘the wicked country,’ and ‘the people with whom the Lord is angry forever.’”

²⁷ And the king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as ^(A)the sycamore of the Shephelah.

⁹ All these were made of costly stones, cut according to measure, sawed with saws, back and front, even from the foundation to the coping, and from the outside to the great court. ¹⁰ The foundation was of costly stones, huge stones, stones of eight and ten cubits. ¹¹ And above were costly stones, cut according to measurement, and cedar. ^12 (A)The great court had three courses of cut stone all around, and a course of cedar beams; so had the inner court of the house of the Lord and ^(B)the vestibule of the house.